Netherlands, province: North Brabant = Noord-Brabant
13 IV 2025 / RKVV Menos - SV Vitesse '08 Reserves 3 3-0 / District South II, Sunday Reserves' League 5-13
Timeline
- 1957 / Foundation of a football club in Landhorst, a village in the heart of the Peel peatland area only founded in 1945 and given the name ‘Landhorst’ in 1956. The new club was given the name Rooms-Katholieke Voetbalvereniging (RKVV) Menos – μένος being the Greek word for ‘courage’ or ‘willpower’, chosen as an approximate translation of the Latin name of RKVV Constantia from neighbouring Wanroij (constantia = firmness, steadfastness) as a way of expressing gratitude for the help and advice offered by that club’s board to the nascent footballing activities in Landhorst. At the foundation meeting at Café Jansen, Vest Wintjes is elected as the new club’s first chairman. Having held training sessions on a makeshift pitch laid out on a plot of farmland owned by J. Arts at Hanenkampseweg, the club settles at a newly laid-out pitch not far from Café Jansen, hemmed in between Pionierstraat (modern-day Scheperstraat) and De Quayweg, for the start of the 1957-58 season, in which the club is placed in Sunday Division 3 of Afdeling Noord-Brabant (alternatively referred to with the name Noord-Brabantse Voetbalbond, NBVB), North Brabant’s sub-branch of the Netherlands’ Football Association (KNVB).
- 1962 / Moving away from its ground near Café Jansen, RKVV Menos settles on a newly laid-out pitch on the other side of Pionierstraat (at the crossroads of modern-day Kuulotterstraat and Scheperstraat).
- 1972 / Moving away from Terrein Pionierstraat after ten years, RKVV Menos settles on a newly-laid out pitch at Schapendreef, where the club has spent its existence ever since.
- 1973 / Having had to make do with a minivan as dressing room in the first year at Schapendreef, RKVV Menos now acquires the luxury of a first set of changing rooms built in stone.
- 1978 / A training pitch is added to the set-up at Terrein Schapendreef, with this pitch being shared with the local netball club, AJOLA.
- 1980 / New dressing rooms, replacing the original constructions inaugurated seven years previously, are inaugurated at Terrein Schapendreef.
- 1982 / As the new clubhouse, built in 1981, is officially inaugurated at Terrein Schapendreef in September 1982, the park is renamed Sportpark Peelvreugd in a ceremony led by Wanroij’s mayor, Piet de Bekker.
- 1996 / As Afdeling Noord-Brabant and all other KNVB sub-branches are abolished, RKVV Menos, which never reached the level of KNVB Sunday League 4 in the first 39 years of its existence, is placed in the newly created KNVB District South I’s Sunday League 6I, the bottom division of the Sunday pyramid in that district. Also around that time, the club’s board chose to remove the prefix ‘RK’, perceived as an anachronistic reference to its Catholic origins, in day-to-day communication, although the club name was never adapted officially.
- 2006 / Inauguration of a new set of dressing rooms at Sportpark Peelvreugd.
- 2015 / Although only finishing in eleventh place in District South II’s Sunday League 6D, RKVV Menos is placed in Sunday League 5 for the new season due to the bottom division being abolished.
- 2016 / In its best season since the abolition of Afdeling Noord-Brabant, RKVV Menos manages a ninth place in District South II’s Sunday League 5G. Also in 2016, RKVV Menos concludes a partnership deal with WVV Constantia from nearby Wanroij, allowing its remaining youth players to be integrated into Constantia’s youth academy.
- 2020 / Finding itself rock bottom of the table in District South II’s Sunday League 5F, in a season cut short due to the first COVID lockdown in March 2020, RKVV Menos withdraws from first team football, instead continuing with only reserves’ teams – a situation which has lasted until the present day.
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